SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 62 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 +62
Contract jobs citing SAP 88 65 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.79% 3.59% 5.41%
As % of the Vendors category 8.76% 7.36% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 70
10th Percentile £363 £363 £448
25th Percentile £523 £455 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +3.45%
75th Percentile £734 £681 £688
90th Percentile £819 £747 £802
Central London median daily rate £600 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.93 -
25th Percentile - £30.15 £146.25
Median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.97% -
75th Percentile - £52.96 £148.75
90th Percentile - £59.43 -
Central London median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
% change year-on-year - -71.97% -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,004 883 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.20% 48.70% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 578 615
10th Percentile £353 £319 £344
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
Central London median daily rate £538 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +0.14% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 11
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £28.57 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -25.52%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.14%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (29.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.82%) SAP HCM
3 5 (5.68%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.27%) iTrent
4 2 (2.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (2.27%) SAP BRIM
4 2 (2.27%) SAP GRC
4 2 (2.27%) SAP MDG
4 2 (2.27%) SAP MM
4 2 (2.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (2.27%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.14%) Primavera
5 1 (1.14%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.14%) SAP CRM
5 1 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.14%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) Azure
2 13 (14.77%) SuccessFactors
3 6 (6.82%) AWS
3 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.68%) GCP
5 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.55%) SaaS
6 3 (3.41%) Boomi
7 2 (2.27%) AtomSphere
7 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.27%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.14%) Algolia
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.14%) Serverless
8 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Power BI
2 4 (4.55%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.41%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.41%) Metadata
4 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.14%) GIS
5 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) eggPlant
2 2 (2.27%) JMeter
2 2 (2.27%) LoadRunner
2 2 (2.27%) Postman
2 2 (2.27%) SoapUI
2 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.14%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.14%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.14%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (1.14%) Selenium
3 1 (1.14%) SilkTest
3 1 (1.14%) SOAtest
General
1 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.14%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.68%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Billing
6 4 (4.55%) Local Government
7 3 (3.41%) Law
7 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.41%) Retail
8 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.27%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Architect
2 14 (15.91%) Analyst
2 14 (15.91%) Consultant
3 11 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 9 (10.23%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Lead
5 8 (9.09%) SAP Manager
6 7 (7.95%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) SAP Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Cutover Manager
8 4 (4.55%) SAP Cutover Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Senior
9 3 (3.41%) Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Integration Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Report Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) SAP Project Manager
10 2 (2.27%) Change Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) Middleware
1 9 (10.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (7.95%) XML
3 6 (6.82%) SOAP
4 5 (5.68%) JSON
5 4 (4.55%) .NET
5 4 (4.55%) OAuth
5 4 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (3.41%) JWT
6 3 (3.41%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.41%) REST
6 3 (3.41%) SAML
6 3 (3.41%) Web Services
7 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.27%) HTML
7 2 (2.27%) Kafka
7 2 (2.27%) XBRL
7 2 (2.27%) XSLT
8 1 (1.14%) RAML
8 1 (1.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.68%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.41%) FMCG
4 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.27%) IoT
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.27%) Replication
5 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.14%) CMDB
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
1 3 (3.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.95%) ERP
2 26 (29.55%) Migration
3 20 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (20.45%) Data Migration
5 15 (17.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (15.91%) Data Modelling
6 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (13.64%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
8 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.36%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.23%) Change Management
10 9 (10.23%) Risk Management
10 9 (10.23%) Validation
11 8 (9.09%) Agile
11 8 (9.09%) Data Governance
12 7 (7.95%) Analytics
12 7 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.95%) Data Mapping
12 7 (7.95%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) SQL
2 6 (6.82%) Python
3 4 (4.55%) Java
4 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.27%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.14%) ABAP
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.14%) Korn
6 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.27%) CIPD
4 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.27%) PMP
4 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.14%) CISM
5 1 (1.14%) CISSP
5 1 (1.14%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) ISEB
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.82%) GDPR
3 3 (3.41%) GRC
3 3 (3.41%) PMO
3 3 (3.41%) QA
3 3 (3.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.27%) IAG
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) Oracle
2 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.68%) Databricks
4 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.55%) Workday
5 3 (3.41%) Ariba
5 3 (3.41%) Google
5 3 (3.41%) IBM
5 3 (3.41%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.27%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.27%) Informatica
6 2 (2.27%) OpenText
7 1 (1.14%) Adobe
7 1 (1.14%) IFS
7 1 (1.14%) Intapp
7 1 (1.14%) Kronos
7 1 (1.14%) Palantir
7 1 (1.14%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.14%) VMware